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What does patent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word patent? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent.
  2. A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.
  3. Patent leather: a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for shoes and accessories.
Verb
  1. To successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.
Adjective
  1. (biology) open, unobstructed, expanded.
  2. explicit and obvious.
  3. (of flour) that is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm
  4. Open; unconcealed; conspicuous.
  5. Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege.
  6. Protected by a legal patent.
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